The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-06-09
Criminal Record.


Criminal Record.
RAPE gIEND LYNCHED.
Boston, Ind, June AT 10 o'clock
Sunday morning Walter and Charles
Davis, brothers, visited the Flaunegan
residence in Perry County, and told the
two Flaunegan brothers that some.
stray stock was breaking into the farm
mile from the house. The Flaune-
gan boys started to see about the sup
posed stray stock, and while they were
gone the Davis boys carried the 14-year-
old daughter of Fiaunegan's to a
neighbOring woods. A handkerchief
was placed over her mouth and the
girl was tied to tree, while her person
was violated. After this she was
beaten with stick of wood and left
for dead. When her two brothers re-
turned to the house, search was made
for the missing girl. An all night
hunt failed to discover her, but on
Monday morning the neighbors found
the girl almost dead tied to a tree in
the woods. The Davis boys were
found in the woods near the suffer
ing girl on Monday morning. One ac-
count states that both of them were
taken to a sapling near by and lynched
after they had confessed the
deed. Another states that Wal
ter Davis escaped, but that
just after dark his brother
Charles was found concealed under the
house and was dragged out by the in
furiated mob. He was terrified and
quaking with fear. He was securely
strapped to horse and driven back to
the spot where he had raYished the
girl. He begged for mercy but his cries
were unheeded. He was taken from
the horse, his hands tied behind him
and was given two minutes in which to
pray. He aVailed himself of the time
allowed. and at the expiration of it
stout sapling was bent down, a short
rope tied to the top, with the other end
about Davis neck. Six men held down
the tree and when it was released it
flew back into position and Davis was
jerked twenty feet into the air. The
force threw him over the top of the
tree and as the rope brought him up
short on the other side his neck was
broken. The body was riddled with
bullets by the crowd and was allowed
to hang there until yesterday morning
when it was cut down by his father
and was given burial.
MURDERED IN HIS CABIN.
ST. LOUIS, June IA special from
Albuquerque, N. M, says the dead
body of Samuel s. Shut, a wealthy
stock rancher, was found in the Megal-
Ian Mountains recently. He had ac-
cumulated large possessions and was
known to keep thousands of dollars
about his person. A few days before
the dead body was found Shut was
seen at neighboring ranch with a
stranger who he said was going to
spend the night with him on his ranch.
Circumstances indicate that the
stranger had left the cabin, returned
and shot at his victim through cracks
between the logs of the cabin. Three
bullets, apparently from Winchester,
took effect, one passing through the
heart and two through the head. The
stranger was identified as we'll known
jail bird. The country is now being
searched,
A NEGRO HANGED.
JACKSON, Miss, June 1.-Wm Steel
(coloredl was hanged in the jail here at
1890 o'clock to-day for the murder of
Nelson Potter. He was baptised last
Sunday and marched to the gallows
accompanied by four preachers. He
exhibited no fear of death and made IA
speech of twenty minutes on the trap,
protesting his innocence.
MASKED ROBBERS.
/ CLEVELAND, June Nv. S. Cotter
man, station agent of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton Railroad, at Ton
| togang, o., was attacked while on his
way home from the depot last night by
two masked robbers, who succeeded in
getting away with $500. Several shots
| were fired, one of which took effect in
his right arm, near the elbow, and
anothered shattered watch in his
vest pocket, which saved his life. He
returned thefir and wounded one of
the robbers but both escaped.
THIEF AND FoRGER.
GRAND RAPIDS. MICH, june q
The latest investigation shows that
Probate Judge Toilet, whose disappear
ance was mentioned in the dispatches
ger. His defalcation is not less than
$50, 900. Several bank certificates are
held here to which Toilet is said to have
forged the signatures.
FATAL CUTTING AND SHOOTING AFFRAY
LITTLE Rock, June 2-The Gazette S
Conway, Ark, special says: Informa-
ton was received to-day of terrible
affray between three young farmers
during a spelling bee at a church in
Harvey township, fifteen miles from
Conway. Their names were Dan and
Albert Mayberry and Tom Middleton
The latter and Dan Mayberry were
rivals for the hand of a neighborine
belle. Saturday night they called
Middleton out of the church and &C
cused him of lying. seized him and
began stabbing him with a knife
during the ARRAY, winch enpLleu Jn(
church, several shots were fired, one OF
which struck Middleton and another
mortally wounding Dan Mayberry. Al
bert Mayberry was fatally shot. DaI
died Monday. Albert has disappeared
and Middleton is reported dying THU
!, morning.
FATAL RAILROAD COLLISION.
, BIRMINGHAM, Ala, June 2.-Twt
, freight trains collided early this morn
ing forty miles south of Calera on TIT
! Louisville Il Nashville Railroad. En-
! gineer Heard Rowe and Fireman Bur
ton (colored), were killed outright, a
2 was also negro tramp, while anothe
was fatally injured. Both trains wer
2 badly wrecked. The accident is attrih
: uted to a faulty timepiece of one of tn
conductors.
f CAPTAIN HUSSEY FATALLY SHOT.
o NEW YORK, June 2.@Captain JAG
Hussey, of Castle Garden, the savior Q
thirty-four persons from drowning an
the proud poSSeSSor of a number G
i medals of honor from Congress. tn
4 Legislature and other bodies, was +:
9 tally shot through the body tonight b
u Policeman G. Hannisi is front of III
+ own house. Hussey is dying at Cow,
/, nour Hospital.
A Deserter Shot.
L SAN ANTONIO, Tex, June I.-Whi
/ S. G. Reed, a deserter from the arm,
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